Eric Anderson of evolutiondebate.info just sent me an interesting essay I’m sure UD readers will enjoy, so I reproduce it below. Eric is a regular commenter at UD, and he is a very insightful fellow who writes extraordinarily well. (Since I design computational algorithms as both a profession and a hobby I particularly enjoyed his essay Bits, Bytes and Biology: What Evolutionary Algorithms (Don’t) Teach Us About Biology, concerning the Avida program, and I highly recommend it to UD readers.) Enjoy! Are We Alone? Identifying Intelligence with SETI Eric Anderson I just got back from a presentation this morning by Dr. Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, on the topic: “Are We Alone?” By way of background, I … Continue reading Are We Alone? Identifying Intelligence with SETI